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The Effect of High Doses of Calcium-Channel Blockers on Survival in Primary Pulmonary Hypertension by Rich, Stuart, Kaufmann, Elizabeth, Levy, Paul S

“…PRIMARY pulmonary hypertension is an uncommon disease that is progressive and incurable. 1 , 2 The recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) Registry on…”
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Hip Fracture Incidence among Elderly Asian-American Populations by Lauderdale, Diane S., Jacobsen, Steven J., Furner, Sylvia E., Levy, Paul S., Brody, Jacob A., Goldberg, Jack

“…This study estimated national age- and sex-specific nontraumatic hip fracture incidence rates for elderly Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Korean…”
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A Look at the Rule of Three by Jovanovic, B. D., Levy, P. S.

“…The Rule of Three states that 3/n is an upper 95% confidence bound for binomial probability p when in n independent trials no events occur. We discuss the…”
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Limit to cardiac compensation during acute isovolemic hemodilution: influence of coronary stenosis by Levy, P S, Kim, S J, Eckel, P K, Chavez, R, Ismail, E F, Gould, S A, Ramez Salem, M, Crystal, G J

“…We assessed limit to cardiac compensation during isovolemic hemodilution (HD) in 14 anesthetized dogs. Radioactive microspheres were used to evaluate…”
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Blade balloon atrial septostomy in patients with severe primary pulmonary hypertension by KERSTEIN, D, LEVY, P. S, HSU, D. T, HORDOF, A. J, GERSONY, W. M, BARST, R. J

“…Patients with severe primary pulmonary hypertension have a poor prognosis, but those with a patent foramen ovale may survive longer. A few reports of clinical…”
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Cross‐cultural adaptation of the Brazilian–Portuguese version of the chronic urticaria quality‐of‐life questionnaire – CU‐Q2oL by Dias, G. A. C., Pires, G. V., Valle, S. O. R., França, A. T., Papi, J. A., Dortas, S. D., Levy, S. A. P., Baiardini, I., Canonica, G. W.

“…To cite this article: Dias GAC, Pires GV, Valle SOR, França AT, Papi JA, Dortas SD Jr, Levy SAP, Baiardini I, Canonica GW. Cross‐cultural adaptation of the…”
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Hip fracture incidence among elderly Hispanics by Lauderdale, D S, Jacobsen, S J, Furner, S E, Levy, P S, Brody, J A, Goldberg, J

“…This study estimated hip fracture incidence for elderly Hispanics in the United States. A cohort of Spanish-surnamed 1992 Medicare enrollees was followed for 2…”
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Histopathology of primary pulmonary hypertension: a qualitative and quantitative study of pulmonary blood vessels from 58 patients in the national heart, lung, and blood institute, primary pulmonary hypertension registry by PIETRA, G. G, EDWARDS, W. D, FISHMAN, A. P, GOLDRING, R. M, GROVES, B. M, LEVY, P. S, REID, L. M, VREIM, C. E, WILLIAMS, G. W, KAY, J. M, RICH, S, KERNIS, J, SCHLOO, B, AYRES, S. M, BERGOFSKY, E. H, BRUNDAGE, B. H, DETRE, K. M

“…Qualitative and quantitative studies were performed on pulmonary blood vessels in lung tissue obtained by biopsy, pneumonectomy, or autopsy from 58 patients in…”
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The prognosis of lupus nephritis in African-Americans: a retrospective analysis by Bakir, A A, Levy, P S, Dunea, G

“…To fully describe the clinical course of lupus nephritis in an African-American population, we report our experience with 54 patients seen at a large…”
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An empirical evaluation of the Global Deterioration Scale for staging Alzheimer's disease by Eisdorfer, C, Cohen, D, Paveza, G J, Ashford, J W, Luchins, D J, Gorelick, P B, Hirschman, R S, Freels, S A, Levy, P S, Semla, T P

“…Although the Global Deterioration Scale has been widely used since its publication in 1982, its stages are based on implicit assumptions about the linearity,…”
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Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in adult African Americans by Bakir, A A, Share, D S, Levy, P S, Arruda, J A, Dunea, G

“…We have previously shown that idiopathic focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is the most common non-proliferative primary glomerulopathy in adult African…”
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RE: “INTERACTION BETWEEN TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND THE RISK OF CANCERS OF THE UPPER AERO-DIGESTIVE TRACT IN BRAZIL” [LETTERS TO THE EDITOR] by Waddell, William J., Levy, Paul S., Schlecht, Nicolas F., Franco, Eduardo L.

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Timing of single lung transplantation for primary pulmonary hypertension by Nootens, M, Freels, S, Kaufmann, E, Levy, P S, Rich, S

“…Single lung transplantation has been advocated as a definitive treatment for primary pulmonary hypertension. Because of reports of improved survival in some…”
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Identification of a Cohort of Male and Female Twins Aged 65 Years or More in the United States by Goldberg, Jack, Miles, Toni P., Furner, Sylvia, Meyer, Joanne M., Hinds, Alan, Ramakrishnan, Viswanathan, Lauderdale, Diane S., Levy, Paul S.

“…In this paper, a method with which to identify a national cohort of elderly twins is proposed. Record linkage algorithms were developed and applied to the >30…”
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Time to Nursing Home Admission for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease: The Effect of Health Care System Characteristics by Miller, Susan C., Prohaska, Thomas R., Furner, Sylvia E., Freels, Sally, Brody, Jacob A., Levy, Paul S.

“…Objective. To study the influence of state health care system characteristics on time to nursing home admission (NHA) for persons with Alzheimer's disease…”
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Alcoholic beverages and breast cancer: some observations on published case-control studies by Roth, H D, Levy, P S, Shi, L, Post, E

“…We identified 38 case-control studies investigating possible associations between alcoholic beverage consumption and cancer of the female breast. Each study…”
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The effect of vasodilator therapy on the clinical outcome of patients with primary pulmonary hypertension by RICH, S, BRUNDAGE, B. H, LEVY, P. S

“…The short- and long-term hemodynamic effects of vasodilators in patients with primary pulmonary hypertension have been studied, but whether they affect…”
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Survival in primary pulmonary hypertension with long-term continuous intravenous prostacyclin by Barst, R J, Rubin, L J, McGoon, M D, Caldwell, E J, Long, W A, Levy, P S

“…To evaluate the effects of long-term-intravenous infusion of prostacyclin on exercise capacity, hemodynamics, and survival in patients with primary pulmonary…”
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The prevalence of pulmonary hypertension in the United States. Adult population estimates obtained from measurements of chest roentgenograms from the NHANES II Survey by Rich, S, Chomka, E, Hasara, L, Hart, K, Drizd, T, Joo, E, Levy, P S

“…Because a definitive diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension requires cardiac catheterization, there have been no data on the prevalence of pulmonary hypertension…”
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Bacteremia in sickle hemoglobinopathies by Zarkowsky, H S, Gallagher, D, Gill, F M, Wang, W C, Falletta, J M, Lande, W M, Levy, P S, Verter, J I, Wethers, D

“…We analyzed 178 episodes of bacteremia that occurred during 13,771 patient-years of follow-up of 3451 patients with sickle hemoglobinopathies. Age-specific…”
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